LEADER 04147oam 22005774a 450 001 9910315231203321 005 20230621135706.0 010 $a1-947447-82-3 024 7 $a10.21983/P3.0232.1.00 035 $a(CKB)4100000007823989 035 $a(OAPEN)1004697 035 $a(OCoLC)1100490229 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse77049 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33189 035 $a(oapen)doab33189 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007823989 100 $a20180813d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmu#---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPataphilology: An Irreader$fSean Gurd ; [edited by] Sean Gurd, Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei 205 $a1st edition. 210 $aBrooklyn, NY$cpunctum books$d2018 210 1$aSanta Barbara, CA :$cPunctum Books,$d2018. 210 4$d©2018. 215 $a1 online resource (237 pages) $cillustrations; PDF, digital file(s) 311 08$a1-947447-81-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 330 $aWhat do the bizzare etymologies of Jean-Pierre Brisset, made-up languages for literary fiction, The Dialectic of Enlightenment, Latin grammarians, Horace?s Epodes, and the Papyrus of Ani have in common? Absolutely nothing. Yet, taken together they provide an unusually coherent picture of a hitherto unacknowledged non-tradition of linguistic investigation. At these moments, particularly within the traditions of European writing which can loosely be termed ?avant-garde,? philology goes rogue, hearkening to unearthly imperatives and barely comprehended intimations, and producing results well beyond those generated by more respectable ? and supposedly more grounded ? philological endeavors. ?Pataphilology: An Irreader seeks to document and analyze such moments of philological speculation, invention, and détournement. In using the term ?pataphilology, Gurd and van Gerven Oei are not proposing a facile analogy with ?pataphysics, where ?pataphilology would be philology?s wacky twin, always out for a lark, never doing anything real. This would presuppose an operation (even if parenthetical) on philology analogous to a shift from physics to ?pataphysics, something which Alfred Jarry, to whom this volume owes the latter neologism, appears to contradict in his initial definition: ?Pataphysics [?] is the science of that which is superinduced upon metaphysics, whether within or beyond the latter?s limitations, extending as far beyond metaphysics as the latter extends beyond physics.? Any way you cut it, ?pataphysics is a physics that demands ? or, better, that relies on ? an utmost philological sensitivity to writing, unheard etymologies, unstable translations, incomplete formalizations, and haphazard decryptions. This volume seeks, then, to document how philological practices ? no matter how non-standard, disreputable, or academically useless ? have played a role in the production of avant-garde literature and knowledge, as well as forgotten, alternative, or fictitious scholarly projects. Ranging from the papyrus of Ani to the future languages of speculative fiction, from the fictional tablets of Armand Schwerner to the Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius, from Horace to Lacan, ?Pataphilology: An Irreader is a cabinet of philological curiosity ? and a map of the ever-changing constellations that emerge when human language loses its chains. 606 $aSemiotics / semiology$2bicssc 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aAlfred Jarry 610 $agrammar 610 $aphilology 610 $apataphysics 610 $aetymology 610 $asemiotics 615 7$aSemiotics / semiology 676 $a401 700 $aGurd$b Sean$01022226 702 $aGerven Oei$b Vincent W.J. van$4edt 702 $aGurd$b Sean$4oth 702 $aGerven Oei$b Vincent W.J. van$4oth 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910315231203321 996 $aPataphilology: An Irreader$92427954 997 $aUNINA